Page. 
The Hymenoptekous Parasites of the California Red Scale (illus- 
trated) L. O. Howard.. 227 
The Insect Collections of the Columbian Exposition 
F. H. Chittenden . . 236 
The Apiarian Exhibit at the Columbian Exposition Frank Benton . . 242 
The San Jose Scale at Charlottesville, Va E. A. Schwarz.. 247 
The San Jose Scale in Virginia D. W. Coquiilett . . 253 
Pyralidina of the Death Valley Expedition 254 
Descriptions of Pyralid^e from the Death Valley C. If. Femold.. 255 
Entomological Memoranda for 1893 Mary E. Murtfeldt.. 257 
A New Spider Parasite William H. Ashmead.. 259 
Notes on Scolytid.e and their Food-plants TV. F. H. Blandford . . 260 
Extracts from Correspondence 265 
Syrian Book-worms — Cheese Skipper Injuring Hams — Vegetarian Mos- 
quitoes—A Cat Warble — The Blood-suckiug Cone-nose again— Leaf- 
hopper Damage to Winter Grain — The Egyptian Icerya in Australia — 
Damage by Locusts in Colorado — Concerning Spider-egg Parasites — 
Abundance of the Red Spider in Illinois — Kerosene and Animal 
Parasites. 
Notes from Correspondents 270 
General Notes 271 
Recent Publications of the II. S. National Museum — Evolution of the 
Wings of Insects — Notes from the Museum of the Institute of Jamaica 
— Some Jamaica Insects — Insect Notes from Trinidad — A Competi- 
tion in Economic Entomology — Grain Insects in Sugar — Extraordi- 
nary Multiplication of certain Lepidoptera — The Potato-tuber Moth 
in California and Texas — Hymenoptera from Lower California — Ants 
and the Fruit-grower — Canadian Saw-flies — Chilean Odynerid;e — 
Lowne's Mouograph of the Blow Fly — Hibernation of the Orange 
Fruit Fly — For Plant-lice in Greennouses — Australian Parasites of 
Vertebrates — Kerosene Emulsion against Sheep Ticks — The Orthop- 
tera of the Galapagos Islands — Obituary — Entomological Society of 
Washington. 
CONTENTS OF No. 4. 
Special Notes 283 
A new and destructive Peach-tree Scale (Diaspis lanatus Morg. and 
Ckll.) (illustrated) 287 
The Currant Stem-girdler {Fhyllwcus [Janus] Jiaviventris Fitch) (illus- 
trated) C.L. Marlatt.. 296 
Habits of Stibadium spumosum Gr Mary E. Murtfeldt.. 301 
The Insect Guests of the Florida Land Tortoise (illustrated) 
Henry G. Hubbard.. 302 
The Control of Phylloxera by Submersion (illustrated) 315 
Acorn Insects, Primary and Secondary Mary E. Murtfeldt . . 318 
Preliminary Report on Suppressing the San Jose Scale in Virginia 
D. W. Coquiilett. . 324 
Notes from Correspondents , 327 
General Notes 328 
New Jersey's proposed Legislation against Insects — Insect Legislation in 
Australia — Legislation against Insects in Massachusetts — The Insects 
subject to Parasitism — Colorado Insects — London Entomological and 
Natural History Society — Entomological Materia Medica — Le Natura- 
liste Canadien— A new Canadian Journal — Insect Injuries in Nova 
Scotia — Insects of Aldabra, Assumption, and Glorioso Islands, Indian 
